The World - News from Nov. 24, 1988
A gunman who tried to kill Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal with a World War I-vintage pistol was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Anatolian news agency reported. A three-judge panel in Ankara had ordered Kartal Demirag’s execution by hanging, but then the judges lowered the sentence because Ozal survived. One of Demirag’s bullets hit Ozal, 61, in the hand, and a second narrowly missed his head as he was addressing thousands of supporters at the congress of his ruling Motherland Party in Ankara in June. Demirag, 32, an alleged rightist, apologized in court for the attack.
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